The Evil Queen's Apple - by Hilda Simões Lopes

The work focuses on the growing suffering triggered by toxic relationships and emotional abuse in today's world. Sociologist specializing in societies in crisis, author Hilda Simões Lopes talks about her research with juvenile delinquents, gender relations, women and rural immigrants.

The book talks about life using short stories. Language is metaphorical due to the symbol, with the breadth of meanings it opens up, saying the unspeakable. Considering Sociology in its “science of customs” aspect and emphasizing how literary activity is also a social activity, the author used the Sociology of Literature in her work. He illustrated his analyzes with literary material, which reflects and deepens the focus on social issues.

The more society becomes sick, the more fertile the ground for emotional abuse. Their poisons and wiles, their violence and invisibility work like the poisoned apples offered by the Evil Queen to Snow White.

We know explicit violence well. Thus, as the course of the work shows, it is important to know that, often, perversity arrives masked and through paths imperceptible to the physical senses. With the face of a “good stepmother”, the predator arrives offering a beautiful and juicy poisoned apple.